software
I may be an exception, but I listen to my music exclusively by leaving my iPod (and iTunes, for that matter) on random play, set to shuffle by album not track. I don't use playlists (I find the process of making a playlist quite traumatic, actually). Before iTunes I used to listen to CDs by pulling out albums and moving between them as the mood took me, and as albums which had lain unlistened to for a while caught my eye.
I've recently been re-reading (actually, reading from start to finish for the first time) Philip 'Vermeer's Camera' Steadman's The Evolution of Designs. The book is about biological analogy in design, focussing on architecture and industrial design. At work I've been gazing into the content production and management abyss, and I've been doing more thinking about web design. This post is the collision between those things, and some of the earlier thinking I did for my dissertation (which I'll try to get around to properly putting up on the site, with its images).
This is a little Applescript I've created to allow you to post URLs to your del.icio.us from within NewNewsWire 2. It's the not the first of it's kind, but it does allow you to post the URL of the current item you're reading, or the URL of the browser tab you're reading, from the same script. The scipt opens the submit URL del.icio.us page in your default web browser. Requires NetNewsWire 2.0 or later.
So, compiling and installing PostgreSQL from source is pretty easy: Follow the instructions Apple posted. For variation I used the niload utility to create a new user and group for postgres rather than going through System Preferences (try this article for help with that). That done, I needed to install psycopg
So, I've finally shipped a new version of reprocessed.org. It's essentially a prototype -- I did the least possible work to get something up and running, so there's a load of stuff missing (comments, primarily), but hopefully I've got a platform to build the fun and interesting things I've wanted to build but couldn't make Movable Type do (at least, do easily enough).